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Lette/rs Patent No. 92,7 97 dated Jffuly '20, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN .CLOTHES-DRIER."

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern: j

Be it known that I, EDWARD P. CLARK, of Millbury, in the comlty of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvenients in Clothes-Driers or'lowel-Racks, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specication, in which- Figure l represents a front elevation, with the sockets B offonr ofthe arms shown in section.v Figure 2 is a top view of g. 1, and Figure 3, a modification ofthe same. Figure 4 represents the under side of one of the sockets detached, and

v Figure 5, a section of acorrugated' and perforated arm or bar, E.

This invention relates to that kind of clothes-driers which are secured to the wall or side of a room, where drying-currents of air will circulate around and among the articles hung 'upon the bars or arms, t' carry ofi' the moisture. v

This invention has for its object economy, convenience, facility, and durability, and its principal novelty consists in the tapering spindles, the sockets, with tapering, holes to lit the spindles, the method of connecting the arms with such sockets, and the means Afor securing the stand or plate to the wall or side of the room, or vto any other suitable support.

The stand or plate, A, has a long slot, 'h,-in its 'top end, and a shorter slot or nick, y, in its lower end, and above this lower slot aplate, C, or ears project at a right angle from the stand.

Tapering spindles, D, rise from the. upper side of each ofthe ears, or from the plate C, to any convenient height, and onthese spindles I place the sockets B, which connect and support the arms or bars E. l The holes a in thc sockets are tapering, and the tapering spindles till the holes, and this insures a tit between the former and the latter,l and provides'for setting and retaining the arms in any position of their horizontal swing, and keeps them in a horizontal position, whether the spindlesand the tapering-holed sockets are new and nnworn, or partly or much -worn by use, as each tapering spindle and its taperingkholed socket will wear uniformly, and on the same taper.

After` moving on arm, E, to the position desired,4

a pressure on the top of the socket at c, at the same tim'e working the arm slightly, will set the socket to thetapering spindle sufficient to retain the arm in a set position. Said arm may be easily set lin any otherposition, by simply pulling or pushing it round.

It is evident that the tapering spindles and sockets, as described, will endure much longer than straight arms or bars maybe employed in a limited space, and

such arms perforated, as shown at E', in fig. 2, and the drying-air allowed to pass through the perfora- Ations 4, and to the fold or portion of the clothes hung Y on such perforated; arm, thus drying that portion of p the clothes as fast, or nearly as fast as the portions which hang vertical, and ineasurablypreventing the wooden arms becoming saturated with water.

The arms may be corrugated as well as perforated,

vas shown inl ig..5, or the perforations 4 may `be omitj ted, and only Lorrugations formed. effectual and practical.

Either of both edges of the arms may bei bevelled, and narrowest at the bottom, so as to allow air to cir- -Either or both are culate between the cloth F and the edge of the arm,' the former coming in contact with the latter only on the tops of the projections c, shown in gfl'. lThe novelty and utility ofthe4 corrugated andperforated arms, I think, willbe readily apparent.v

4 The arms are letinio thesockets between the curved sides, and butted against the hub, at j; and shouldered against the ange b, and fittedunder it. 'v

The'nnder side ofeach socket has a square opening, and the arm isiitted into this openingyand 011 to the cross-bar d, in the form of a iiush pan`el, H, and fastcned by ascrew'or screws, in, through the bar d, and the side of the socket thus making the arm doubly secure. Y

In practice, the stand A is placed against the wall, l

beneath aprojecting screw, m,'aud pushed upward, the sides 3 ot' the slot'h passing each side of the screw. Another screw or projecting pin, 5, enters the slot or nick y and the plate A, and the rack or drier (having the arms or their sockets on the -tapering spinv dies) is secured inposition.

Having thus described my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-,

A s an improvement on a clothes-drier, the stand A,

yspindles D, cars or plate C, sockets B, and arms E, all constructed, combined, and arranged in' the. manner and'for the purpose specified'.

l EDWARD P. CLARK.

Vitnesscs:

NATHAN BROWN, rJOHNE, CRANE. 

